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2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 1219
April 11, 2024 - Introduced by Representatives MADISON, HAYWOOD, BALDEH,
DRAKE, MOORE OMOKUNDE, MYERS, STUBBS, CLANCY and BARE, cosponsored by
Senators L. JOHNSON, SPREITZER and LARSON. Referred to Committee on Labor
and Integrated Employment.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT relating to: study of guaranteed employment grant program and
making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the Department of Workforce Development to study the
creation of a job guarantee and full employment grant program. Under the program,
DWD and municipalities provide grants to public and nonprofit employers in the
care economy to provide certain job opportunities in positions covered by a collective
bargaining unit to individuals with disabilities, heads of households with incomes
that are 150 percent or less than the federal poverty line, individuals who have been
unemployed for extended periods, individuals who were previously incarcerated,
and individuals between 18 and 24 years old. The bill requires DWD to submit a
report with the findings and recommendations.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as
an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1.0Nonstatutory provisions.
(1) JOB GUARANTEE AND FULL EMPLOYMENT GRANT STUDY. The department of
workforce development shall conduct a study of the requirements to create a grant
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program administered by the department of workforce development or a
municipality to award grants to public and nonprofit entities in the care economy to
create and offer guaranteed jobs in positions that are covered by a collective
bargaining agreement, for at least 100 days of 8 hours per day at a pay rate of $20
per hour. In this subsection, “care economy” means job sectors that prioritize care
for people, communities, and the environment, and includes health care, child care,
elder and disability care, social services, public transportation, sustainability,
conservation or climate change mitigation, public infrastructure, education, public
and social housing, and criminal legal reform. The study shall determine the number
of positions required, the cost, the number of individuals who would be eligible for
a position under the grant program, paid training strategies for jobs offered under
the program, and strategies to create pathways to and opportunities for full-time
employment. Eligible employers would be able to use grant money to create and offer
jobs in 25-day increments to any of the following:
(a) Individuals between 18 and 24 years old.
(b) Individuals with a disability.
(c) Heads of households whose household income is 150 percent or less of the
nonfarm federal poverty line for the continental United States, as defined in 42 USC
9902 (2).
(d) Individuals who have been unemployed and searching for a job for 27 weeks
or more, or who have been unemployed for 3 of the preceding 5 years, except that
employers of such individuals would no longer be eligible for a grant under the
program for individuals who have been employed by the same employer for more
than 12 consecutive months.
(e) Individuals who were previously incarcerated.
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(2) JOB GUARANTEE AND FULL EMPLOYMENT REPORT. No later than 18 months after
the effective date of this subsection, the department of workforce development shall
submit a report with its written findings and recommendations resulting from the
study under sub. (1) to the governor and to the chief clerk of each house of the
legislature for distribution to the appropriate standing committees in the manner
provided under s. 13.172 (3).
SECTION 2.0Fiscal changes.
(1) JOB GUARANTEE AND FULL EMPLOYMENT GRANT STUDY. In the schedule under
s. 20.005 (3) for the appropriation to the department of workforce development under
s. 20.445 (1) (a), the dollar amount for fiscal year 2023-24 is increased by $250,000
to conduct the study under SECTION 1 (1) of this act and to create the report under
SECTION 1 (2) of this act.
(END)
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